A Homiletic Encyclopaedia of Illustrations in Theology and Morals. ...Funk & Wagnalls, 1885 - 892 pages |
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... once be a part of the reasoning , and an elucidation of it . Indeed , a just figure always adds power to a chain of logic , and increases the amount of truth conveyed . It is also of great use in relieving the attention , as a stopping ...
... once be a part of the reasoning , and an elucidation of it . Indeed , a just figure always adds power to a chain of logic , and increases the amount of truth conveyed . It is also of great use in relieving the attention , as a stopping ...
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... once coming but to hear Peter Martyr preach , by a mere simile that he used , God smote his heart , and made it the means of his conversion . The simile was thus : Peter Martyr in his discourse had occasion to say , Men may think very ...
... once coming but to hear Peter Martyr preach , by a mere simile that he used , God smote his heart , and made it the means of his conversion . The simile was thus : Peter Martyr in his discourse had occasion to say , Men may think very ...
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... Once give me to believe that I am a child of God , that my Father's Spirit has reinhabited my soul , that all that is happening to me , whether seemingly good or evil , is the working out of a higher nature from my lower one - once let ...
... Once give me to believe that I am a child of God , that my Father's Spirit has reinhabited my soul , that all that is happening to me , whether seemingly good or evil , is the working out of a higher nature from my lower one - once let ...
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... once hin- ders him ; but labour to do great things for God , and God will do great things for you . -Bridge , 1600-1670 . ( 240. ) Who would not be covetous , and with reason , if health could be purchased with gold ? Who not ambitious ...
... once hin- ders him ; but labour to do great things for God , and God will do great things for you . -Bridge , 1600-1670 . ( 240. ) Who would not be covetous , and with reason , if health could be purchased with gold ? Who not ambitious ...
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... once more . Through all the forenoon it is stormy and cloudy by turns . All the afternoon there are dense vaporous clouds which shroud the sun's glory . And yet , as he draws near to the horizon the clouds lift , and with full - orbed ...
... once more . Through all the forenoon it is stormy and cloudy by turns . All the afternoon there are dense vaporous clouds which shroud the sun's glory . And yet , as he draws near to the horizon the clouds lift , and with full - orbed ...
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Page 396 - For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Page 222 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common ; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Page 122 - Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Page 117 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 56 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 280 - As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : When shall I come and appear before God...
Page 95 - For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.
Page 13 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 373 - Omnipotent. Ay me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. 'With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds. But say I could repent, and could obtain By act of grace my former state ; how soon Would height recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feigned submission swore ! ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Page 389 - Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made ; well : but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace ; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands...